The Winter issue of In the Hills Magazine is now out. And the Angels Sang received a review in the As the Page Turns segment, written by Tracey Fockler. The historical and fantastical seamlessly rub shoulders in this anthology of short, speculative fiction. There’s still time to purchase a copy for yourself or a Christmas gift before the big day, available through online booksellers worldwide, and select bookstores in Ontario.
When reading I find it difficult to overcome the editor, the cynic, the person sitting there blue pencil in hand ready to pounce on clumsy characterization and phraseology, implausible premise and plotting. Happily, Peter Watts, author of Starfish, put that editor and cynic to sleep, so that for the first time in several novels I was drawn in and engaged. It is a dark, inner world into which Watts calls us, made chilling by his…
Unfortunately, like so many authors who write endless series, Card should have known when to stop. Not one of his best works, Shadow of the Hegemon is filled with cookie cutter characters who are clones of one another to some degree; utterly nonsensical political stratagems that tend to a big yawn; utterly implausible premise of very young adolescents being the political geniuses and power-mongers of the world. All of this is very disappointing coming from…
This review of Shadow Song showed up yesterday on Chapters, from one of Community’s most active members, known as Lady Ethereal Butterfly: Engrossing! I have to admit that before I started reading the novel, I made some assumptions because I’ve never really been that excited about Canadian history, and Shadow Song is historical fiction set in Canada, but I was pleasantly surprised by how far off my assumptions were. While the story did have a…
This review came in today through Chapters Community, by Tiaamat, a Chapters employee and one of Community’s Top Reviewers: I will be passing this along to my co-workers! Stephens’ stories cover a wide gamut. Mythology, Fantasy and Sci-fi. From Father Brebeuf’s last moments, motherhood, Inuit legend, empaths, terrorism and survival, trauma and tweaked athletes to molestation, messing with time, assassins, environmentalists and lions. A little of everything seems to have inspired her works. This can…